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Marco Rubio’s Cuba Fantasies Are More Dangerous Than They Seem

Little Marco is a modern-day Joe McCarthy, brandishing a list of supposed Cuban influence agents.

Here we go again. As his approval ratings continue to fall, Trump flails about, escalating the bombing of Iran, imposing 50 percent tariffs on Canada, labeling Democrats “godless communists,” minting a gold token in his own image, and more. And now “Little Marco” Rubio has offered up his own brand of crazy, spearheading the administration’s next assault on our democracy.

Little Marco, whose oversize shoes are a perfect metaphor for the hapless schlump named by Trump to act as secretary of state, national security advisor, and AID director simultaneously, has revealed that the central source of “Far Left Terrorism (FLT)” in the United States is—wait for it—the beleaguered island of Cuba.

Rubio’s State Department just issued a report—“Cuba, the Capital of 21st Century Communism”—that charges that “many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history—from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism [read opposition to Israeli genocide in Gaza] on American college campuses—can be linked, in some way, shape or form, to Cuban influence.” “In some way, shape or form.” Really.

To give form to this risible claim, the State Department report named names along the way. The supposed agents of Cuban influence include Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame, radio host Amy Goodman, mayors like New York City’s Zohran Mamdani and Los Angeles’s Karen Bass, Representatives Maxine Waters, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, the Democratic Socialists of America, and many of the guests attending the marriage ceremony of tech magnate Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans, one of the founders of Code Pink. Little Marco is a modern-day Joe McCarthy, brandishing a list of Cuban influence agents.

DSA merits particular attention in the 100-page report. The report concedes that DSA “was not shaped by the direct and tangible influence of the Cuban government” but “[n]one of that is to say that the group has no ties to the Cuban regime and its influence network.” DSA’s growth is per se a Cuban asset, because it means that “Havana no longer needs to rely solely on intelligence penetration or asset........

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